le 10 decembre

Bonjour!

Today we did some fun cookie problem solving. I am making cookies. I have candy cane cookie cutters and ornament cookie cutters. I made 20 cookies. How many of each did I made. How many combinations can you come up with? Students got to pick their own total number of cookies ranging from 10-40 in order to challenge themselves.

In Science we watched a short interview with a man who is colour blind. Ask your child what he/she learnt!

We also got to touch a variety of textures and identified the French vocabulary that go with them.

Important dates

Wednesday: please return library books and science permission forms. Students will be unable to participate without them.

Friday: Caroling, all welcome. 8:45

le 9 decembre

Bonjour

If you missed Friday's blogger, please see the instructions for logging into Iris.

Permission form coming home today for Thursday's Science project. Please return it asap for your child to participate.

Our new words of the week are below. Please continue to practice the words for weeks past, the goal is for students to be able to identify them at sight (without having to think about it). Des/les/mes/tes/ses are proving to be the trickiest ones, along with elle.

Important dates:
Tuesday: Healthy Hunger lunch
Wednesday: Please return all library books, please send permission form for taste testing Thursday!
Friday: Caroling 8:45, all welcome

le 6 decembre

Bonjour

Today we had our first Choice and Curiosity session, it was a lot of fun!

Our grade 4 buddies came to help us upload our first artifacts of the year in Iris. Log on to watch your child read and see the art project they are most proud of. We've encountered a bit of a glitch uploading the community projects, they will come in time.
https://iris.cbe.ab.ca/Account/LogIn?ReturnUrl=%2F
(Login information can be found on the inside flap of their pochettes).

Please return all library books by Friday. Library exchange will recommence after the holidays.

Bon weekend!

le 5 decembre

Bonjour!

Tomorrow is pajama day and our first "Choice and Curiosity" session in which students will be going to a read aloud in another teacher's classroom. It should be fun. Please don't send stuffies tomorrow, that's a goal they are working towards and might achieve by Monday.

Last day for scholastics is tomorrow.

Today we started "le toucher" in Science. Students practiced saying "Je touche avec ma main." and got to participate in centers in which they had to try to guess what was inside paper bags (rice, sand, cottonballs, pinecones etc). We practiced terms like:
rugeuex (rough)
mou (soft, squishy)
dur (hard)
lisse (smooth)
doux (soft ie like fur)
bosselé (bumpy).

In Social Studies we identifyied the differences between rural (rurale) and urban (urbaine) communities.

le 4 decembre

Bonjour

A delightful mystery was solved today! Luc le lutin has joined our class to learn French! Students are encouraged to speak to him in French and to read to him when they have time.

We have begun learning about our 5 senses in Science.

-Students will be asked to identify them and learn how they keep us safe and make sense of the world
-Identify how animals use their senses
-Learn what happens to people lacking sight or speech

Yesterday we began learning about smell by guessing some mystery smells (onions, cinnamon, coffee, oranges etc). Today we discussed how our sense of smell keeps us safe (smelling smoke, chemicals etc) and identified pleasant (and not so pleasant) odors.
The full curriculum for the 5 senses can be found here:
http://www.learnalberta.ca/ProgramOfStudy.aspx?lang=en&ProgramId=379983#771318

In Social Studies we learnt about how groups make decisions. How many ways can your child identify?

Students all have their cbe login information on the inside flap of their pochettes. Login name is their cbe id number that is listed. Not their name! Password is also listed. If it DOES NOT work, please let me know and I can reset it.
You can use this information to access IRIS as well as the CBE elibrary where you can check if you have overdue school library books.
Iris
https://iris.cbe.ab.ca/Account/LogIn?ReturnUrl=%2F
CBE elibrary
https://ims.cbe.ab.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=4vB1cHXQwI/AAAERS/X/60/1182/X

le 3 decembre

Some new and some favourite Christmas songs:
L'as-tu vu?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TWQLl2zvQ
Quand le Père Noel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynt7aO8CuGw

Here is a rubric we created together for our writing. At this point in the year, students are copying print, or using sentence starters to write (or complete) a simple sentence or two. Some students are even writing sentences on their own! Bravo!Our success criteria::

-My sentence starts with a capital letter.

-There is a space between each word.

-My sentence ends with a period.

We played Roll and Cover today which is a GREAT way to practice subitizing and mental math.
You can download and play at home. Games are the best way to practice all sorts of math skills.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0SPeY_PyGOoSmlfdWFtVGMza1E/view
(alternatively on this site if the first one doesn't work)
https://smilingandshininginsecondgrade.blogspot.com/2015/12/december-ideas-and-freebies.html

Friday: Pajama Day

le 2 decembre

Wow! C'est décembre! Incroyable! (Incredible)

Today we started to learn some holiday vocabulary including: un sapin, une lumière and un lutin.

Speaking of lutins....we have a mystery visitor in our classroom....but he's not here for the reason you think... stay tuned to learn more...

We have been practicing different ways of counting: forward, backwards and skip counting. The goal is that students can count forwards and backwards to 20, and skip count by 2, 5, and 10 to 20 (or beyond!!!)

Today's problem was: When I count I say the number 8. How am I counting? Students were to come up with at least two solutions to this open-ended question. Ask your child to explain their thinking.

Home reading coming home tonight. If you missed Friday's blogger, please have a peak at the articles attached.

Important dates
Tuesday: Library-> Please return books
Friday: 
-Scholastics due (fingers crossed will arrive before the break)
-Pajama Day (for all classes)
-Choice and Curiosity: students will be going to another classroom and will spend some time with students across the grades listening to some of teachers's favourite picture books.